inSYNC Festival News / Friday 1st December 2017

One of the UK’s biggest and best dance music festivals will return with a three-day event after the introduction of camping to the day festival last year. We Are FSTVL will take over the Damyns Hall Aerodrome in Upminster on late May Bank Holiday weekend next year. The festival’s reputation for inviting the world’s best DJs has become noticed within the industry and 2018 is set to be no exception. The lineup for 2018 is now in phase three and heavyweight drum & bass DJ Andy C is set to headline Saturday night with Carl Cox, DJ EZ and Joseph Capriati offering support. Sunday will play host to megastar producer Eric Prydz, alongside Jamie Jones, Marco Carola and MK.

Portsmouth’s Victorious Festival has now been running since 2012, hosted in the city’s historic dockyard and subsequently since 2013 on Portsmouth’s Common. In its short life, the festival has seen some pretty impressive acts come through its doors; The Lightning Seeds, Maximo Park, Dizzee Rascal Basement Jaxx and Manic Street Preachers to name but a few. After last year’s edition of a Friday night affair, the festival will return next August Bank Holiday as a three-day event. Victorious organisers are yet to release a full lineup, however, their Friday night party will feature ’90s indie-pop group The Libertines and Yorkshire-based rock band Kaiser Chiefs as headliners.

The annual music and sports festival, Boardmasters, held in Cornwall is one of Britain’s most unique. Set on a glorious beach, Boardmasters features five days of surfing, BMXing and some of the world’s biggest and best artists, not too mention a whole host of other extreme sports. Boardmasters’ heritage goes back more than thirty years to 1981, playing host to more than 50,000 festival goers. The Newquay event promises the thrill-seekers among us an exciting opportunity to take part in the UK’s most active festival. The first phase of the 2018 lineup features world-renowned DJ production duo The Chemical Brothers as next year’s headliner. Queen of BBC Radio 1 Annie Mac and garage legend Craig David will offer support with Fat Freddy’s Drop, The Horrors, Bicep, The Amazons and Declan McKenna also on the bill.